Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

One year ago today Nonprofit Tech 2.0 published its first blog post. At the time I was a skeptical blogger. I had low expectations for Nonprofit Tech 2.0. I would have been happy with couple hundred visitors a week, but a year later Nonprofit Tech 2.0 just surpassed 254,000 visitors. I didn’t see that coming at all. In fact, what I have discovered over the last year is that blogging was the missing piece in my social media strategy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 31, 2010

I’ve been involved in this Telesummit now since the beginning. It’s really fun, and important. The Women Who Tech Telesummit was formed three years ago to celebrate all the innovative women who provide incredible value to technology and social media. So it’s time to come get your tech on ! Come join hundreds of women on September 15th at the Women Who Tech Telesummit from 11AM to 6PM Eastern Time.

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NetWits

AUGUST 30, 2010

Are you thinking about the future of communication as it relates to reaching and connecting with your supporters, donors, volunteers and members? What about reaching those who know nothing about you? I am. I’m thinking about how the nonprofit industry should be adapting to the ever changing landscape of internet use and how mobile devices fit in. Here’s a few interesting points to consider.

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 30, 2010

September is a busy month for just about everyone – a new school year for many, harvest time for both fundraisers and farmers - and a whole new crop of free nonprofit webinars is here. Have a look – you’re sure to find an online learning opportunity that’s of interest to folks in your organization. As always, you’ll want to check back from time to time through the month, as late-coming webinar notices are often added in the comments section, down below.

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Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2010

While some may think there are not a lot of high quality women who can speak on technology issues or are starting tech companies, it simply isn’t true. Women Who Tech brings together talented and renowned women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change. The summit provides a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, e

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

If you're in charge of your organization's web analytics, you undoubtedly know about bounce rate -- the measure of visitors who enter your site, say "Enh" (or something ruder), and immediately leave, without viewing any more of your carefully crafted pages. Yeah, those people annoy me, too. But unless you're a consultant working with several nonprofit clients, you're probably working in a vacuum: you know your own site's bounce rate, but you don't know how good it is compared to other

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Blog posts and articles on Leadership and Social Media topped the active topics at AssociationJam.org last month. Events came in close behind, as association professionals were all geared up for ASAE10. Fundraising, Membership, Technology, and Volunteers were tied for third. Here are the most popular links at “AJam” in August 2010.( read more ). Tags: Associations Non-profit technology General non-profit interest nptech online community Non-profit Communications Association Jam association manag

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Two or three years ago, I received an email from Chris Brogan asking if I would give some advice to a recent college graduate named Avi Kaplan who was interested in a career of using social media for nonprofits. I chatted with Avi and answered some of his questions. Not long after that, Avi helped Stacey Monk develop a strategy for the very first Tweetsgiving.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

Did you know that more than 30% of U.S. farm operators are women? Temra Costa's book, Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat features the stories of over 30 women and how they are changing our food system for the better as farmers, educators, mothers, chefs, businesswomen, and policy wonks. She is also co-host of the radio show, The Queens of Green on Green 960 , which you can also be downloaded as a podcast.

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NetWits

AUGUST 31, 2010

We’d like to send out a big thanks to everyone who participated in Blackbaud’s INSPIRE Contests – the response was amazing! The Blackbaud INSPIRE Tweetaway asked participants to share how they inspire supporters with social media. (Be sure to stay tuned for a roundup of all of the great entries.).

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Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio

The average nonprofit uses five or more different software platforms to create their donor’s journey, making the experience clunky and disjointed. If you want to design a magical online giving experience for donors, making their journey as seamless as possible is key. In this webinar with expert Tim Sarrantonio, you’ll learn the fundamental steps to create an immersive and personalized online giving experience for your donors.

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

At Wild Apricot, we are blessed to have a number of terrific partners who provide services for our customers. While we've designed Wild Apricot to be easy-to-use, there are still folks who need additional help with things like account setup, graphic design, and custom scripting. Lamees Abourahma of Webbright Services is one such partner, and she recently did a great post on her blog about our association member and contact database functions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Flickr Photo by Metro Transportation Library and Archive. Successful social media is like going to the gym because the discipline of a good routine gets results much like working out on a daily basis. If you have put on running shoes for the first time, do you think you can really expect to win the Boston Marathon? If you are just starting out or if you haven’t identified a strategy and a good regular routine, can you really expect success?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Flickr photo: shareski How much cash do you have in your wallet right now? As I sat in the Grand Junction Colorado airport -- which is charming -- I had a conundrum: the contents of my wallet came to a grand total of 72 cents.* This is a common situation for me, a situation that means if I need a Diet Coke later (inevitable), I will likely also be forced to buy some chips or something so that I can put the charge on my ATM card.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2010

This is Part 2 in TechSoup GreenTech's series on buying green IT equipment. See Part 1 here. We've spoken a good deal on refurbished computers over the years at TechSoup. Here's my general take on the topic: Buying and using refurbished computers is incredibly green. This is mainly because more than 80 percent of the lifetime energy consumption of a new PC occurs before you buy it.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Many nonprofit staff and volunteers dream of the day when a donor will walk into their office and hand them a large check. But it’s only a dream because they don’t know how to find those donors, much less encourage them to give big money. So here’s the thing: it’s not rocket science. Identifying and cultivating major donors is actually fairly easy, once you know what to do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

I like to joke about how using social networks like Twitter can give you “ ADOLAS &# (ADD, Oh, look at Squirrel !). The reference is from the Disney/Pixar movie UP – the scenes where the talking dogs can’t finish a sentence because they get distracted by a squirrel. I’ve tried to come up with some manual ways to avoid this on Twitter.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Mal Warwick, Mal Warwick Associates. Our economy is still in bad shape, and a growing number of economists is telling us that it may well get worse. So what can we fundraisers do to minimize the impact of this difficult period on our organizations, and at the same time maximize our income? I suggest a cautious and balanced nine-step approach: . 1. Reassess the whole ball of wax: fundraising, marketing, communications.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2010

Rececca at Wild Apricot has a great post this week on what makes a good nonprofit website. She's assembled some tips from the MojaLink group on LinkedIn. Here are a few of my favorites: Defining the purpose of a nonprofit website is key. Is it to attract donations, or is it to provide information to the individuals and groups seeking your services? Who will use it, why do they use it, [and] what do you want them to do on it?

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AUGUST 30, 2010

“Well-behaved women rarely make history.&#. I love this quote! I saw it so clearly recently. I spent the weekend in Savannah, Georgia with my Mama and sister-in-law to celebrate my Mama’s birthday (she’s 74). What I didn’t expect was to learn so much about the role women have played throughout history. We learned the details of how Juliette Gordon Low started the Girl Scouts of America (and we saw a couple of scout groups touring Low’s home).

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Care2

AUGUST 31, 2010

Has the world gone mobile crazy? Apple’s app store just cracked a quarter million available mobile applications, Google’s Android is giving them a run for their money, and Microsoft is waiting in the wings with a Windows 7 Mobile. Apps are central to mobile and, mobile web use is exploding, according to Allyson Kapin of Blogger-In-Chief for Care2's Frogloop and Partner at Rad Campaign.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Sarah Durham, Big Duck. We're all nerds when it comes to new media. No matter how many studies tell us that that the gadgets we're hooked on aren't good for us , most of us technology nerds still can't get enough. In part, it's because the technology is now so fast, easy and cheap to use that simply investing our time to figure it out seems like a pleasure.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2010

Join Simone P. Joyaux and GiftWorks on September 9 at 2 p.m. Eastern time for a free webinar on the 14 core principles of fund development. Simone (ACFRE, Joyaux Associates ) is recognized internationally as one of the most thoughtful, inspirational, and provocative leaders in the philanthropic sector. She's an expert in fund development, strategic planning, and board development, working with all types and sizes of organizations.

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Are your donors your biggest fans, or are you lacking donor loyalty? The truth is, your donors have expectations of what their relationship with your organization should look like. This ebook will help you learn how to live up to those expectations!

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 31, 2010

“How can I make sure that another organization doesn’t steal my donors?&#. I’ve been asked this many times. Let me put this to rest right now. You can’t “steal” someone else’s donors. People give to the organizations and causes that they want to. There’s nothing you can do to change this. If the donor decides to give to a different cause, it’s because they perceive the new cause to be more worthy of their support.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

It's hard to believe but summer is coming to an end which means year-end fundraising is just around the corner. Are you prepared to ramp up your fundraising strategy this month? Wondering what the latest best practices are and what kind of fundraising results you can expect? Check out Care2's latest web presentation Hot or Not: What's Sizzling in Online Fundraising , featuring fundraising experts - Steve MacLaughlin, Director, Internet Solutions, Blackbaud, Donna Wilkins, President, Charity Dyna

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Matt Berg, Millenium Villages. I’ve been working or interested in the space of ICT for Development (ICT4D) for about a decade now. During this time, I’ve seen a lot of exciting changes, but nothing has been exciting or frankly paradigm shifting as the wide spread growth of GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) networks and emergence of applications that leverage the now ubiquitous mobile phone to deliver services by leveraging their ability to deliver and collect data. .

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

At TechSoup Global we've been working hard on a new round of improvements to the TechSoup.org website. I'm excited to update you on our progress and hear your feedback. A little over a year ago, we unveiled the first phase in a series of improvements to the site, including a new home page design and enhanced search functionality. Those visible changes to the site also represented significant improvement to our back end systems — both hardware and software.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Last week at my local AFP chapter meeting, I had the privilege of hearing Eric Benson speak. Eric is one of the most positive and energetic people I know and he spoke about achieving life-work balance. Here’s some of what I took away from the presentation. We think of work as something negative and play as something positive. Why can’t work be fun, too?

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AUGUST 28, 2010

After scouring the web, two articles caught our attention this week. Check them out and feel free to share your own picks of the week. The Death of Facebook Geoff Livingston wrote a thought-provoking piece this week about the death of facebook. "Who in their right mind would predict the death of Facebook given its ever increasing dominance ? But this is a question everyone asks, 'What’s next?

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

William (Bill) Lester, NPOKI. It’s an old problem, made worse by the tantalizing potential that technology provides: how do you collect and aggregate quality data when you work in low resource areas? Imagine this scenario: You’re an NGO working in an African country to advocate for clean water. You accomplish this by educating the people of that country on all aspects of safe water, and you lead projects that help to improve the quality of the water supply.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

This week TechSoup staff members and expert consultants are speaking at the National Sexual Assault Conference hosted by CALCASA (California Coalition Against Sexual Assault) National Sexual Assault Conference (NSAC) in Hollywood, CA. Susan Tenby and Megan Keane presented on a panel with Janet Fouts today on LISTENING online, engaging through finding, hearing and connecting with your greater audience. read more.

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